Dance and the City, 2017

19th Annual Oxford Dance Symposium

New College, Oxford

The Timetable at a glance

Tuesday 18th
10:30	Registration, Coffee, Conduit Room
	I: Mapping the Civic Environment - McGregor-Matthews Library Chair: Michael Burden
11:00	Uta Dorothea Sauer, Technische Universität Dresden ‘Dance in German Cities and its Influence on the Civil Development’
11:30	Jelena Rothermel, Department of Theatre Studies, University of Leipzig ‘Arlecchino crossing the Channel: Danced Interrelations between the Fairground Players of Paris and London‘
	II: The City Meets the Stage - McGregor-Matthews Library Chair: Anne Daye
12:00	Richard Semmens, University of Western Ontario ‘Prison culture, an urban folk-hero, and a failed pantomime: Harlequin Sheppard (Drury Lane, 1724)’
12:30	Iris Julia Bührle, Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, New College, University of Oxford ‘Shakespeare ballets from Noverre to Taglioni’
13:00	Lunch, The Hall
	III: The Mechanics - McGregor-Matthews Library Chair: Jennifer Thorp
14:00	Carol G. Marsh, Washington, DC ‘The Theatrical Origins of Gennaro Magri’s Contraddanze’
14:30	Erin Whitcroft, University of Exeter ‘A natural and cultivated gracefulness’: how to move in the Eighteenth Century’
15:00	Olive Baldwin, Thelma Wilson, Essex ‘Few and far between: female dancing teachers in eighteenth century British cities’
15:30	Joanna Jarvis, Birmingham City University ‘Costume and the availability cascade. Female costume for dance on the London stage in the early eighteenth-century’
16:00	Tea, Conduit Room
	IV: Cities McGregor-Matthews Library Chair: Carol G. Marsh
16:30	30 Joseph Fort, King’s College, London ‘The Public Balls in Late-Eighteenth-Century Vienna’
17:00	Fabienne Lagrange, Bordeaux Montaigne University CANCELLED ‘Ballroom dancing at the heart of the City of Bordeaux, during the long eighteenth century’
17:30	Samantha Sing Key, Independent Scholar (formerly University of Sydney, Australia) ‘“A delightful winter residence”: the civilising role of the ballroom in early Washington, D.C.’
	V: Practical session – Lecture Room 6
18:00	Anne Daye – Cotillions
19:00	Reception, Founder's Library
19:30	Dinner, Founder's Library
Wednesday 19th
	VI: City Spaces and Venues - McGregor-Matthews Library Chair: Iris Julia Bührle
09:00	Theresa Buckland, University of Roehampton, London ‘Dance, Space and the City in Nineteenth-Century Britain’
09:30	Mary Collins, Royal Academy of Music and Royal College of Music ‘“I never saw a more beautiful scene… attended by great crowding and confusion”’
10:00	Anne Daye, TrinityLaban, London, and The Historical Dance Society ‘A Masque in the City, the City in a Masque: The Triumph of Peace, 1634’
10:30	Caitlyn Lehmann, University of Melbourne ‘From Saddle to Stage: Ballet at Astley’s Amphitheatre, 1780-1800’
11:00	Coffee - Conduit Room
	VII: Genres - McGregor-Matthews Library Chair: Theresa Buckland
11:30	Cornelis Vanistendael, Leuven, Belgium ‘New quadrilles for the Société Philharmonique d’Anvers 1813 – 1818’
12:00	Hanna Walsdorf, University of Leipzig ‘Hosting a Congress, Spreading a Dance Craze: Vienna and the Waltz?’
	VIII: Colonial Dancing – Lecture Room 6
12:30	Ricardo Barros, Royal Academy of Music, London ‘From the “Terreiro” to the “Paço” – The extraordinary journey of a dance form in colonial Rio de Janeiro’ followed by a workshop
13:30	Lunch - South Undercroft
	IX: Representations - McGregor-Matthews Library Chair: Joseph Fort
14:30	Sophie Horrocks, English National Opera ‘Stone dancers in the city: the “ballet girl” and the nineteenth century public imagination’
15:00	Hillary Burlock, Mansfield College, Oxford ‘“What Dukes, what Drapers, what Barbers, and Peers”: Representations of the Election Ball ‘
15:30	Keith Cavers, Independent Scholar ‘Hanquin & Columbinichee; Dancing, Punch, and Muffins at Poplar Grove and the Dancers of the Juvenile Drama’
16:00	Michael Burden, New College, Oxford ‘Images of Dancing (in London) with the Didelots’